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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: As pointed out by [[Creator/BobChipman Moviebob]] and [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle Kallgren]] in their videos on the film. ''Buckaroo'' spends a lot of time quietly poking fun at the absurd melodrama of serialised pulp fiction adventure books, from the wacky characters to the massive fake continuity looming in the distance that is referenced through fake {{Mythology Gag}}s and {{Continuity Nod}}s, to replicate the experience of starting to read an established continuity partway through without reading the books that preceded it (note that this movie predates Website/{{Wikipedia}} by seventeen years) and joke about how silly it sounds when grown people act it out in live-action. But nowadays, anyone confused by ContinuityLockout can look up the relevant details online, and the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has not only enjoyed considerable success using such a model of storytelling, but it's also made it ''normal'' to see gags referencing other parts of an established continuity or other versions thereof and either not be confused or be able to find out what it means fairly quickly. In other words, ''Buckaroo Banzai'' more or less shows how weird the average modern franchise movie would seem if it were viewed as a standalone work, without a franchise to support it.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: As pointed out by [[Creator/BobChipman Moviebob]] and [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle Kallgren]] in their videos on the film. ''Buckaroo'' spends a lot of time quietly poking fun at the absurd melodrama of serialised pulp fiction adventure books, from the wacky characters to the massive fake continuity looming in the distance that is referenced through fake {{Mythology Gag}}s and {{Continuity Nod}}s, to replicate the experience of starting to read an established continuity partway through without reading the books that preceded it (note that this movie predates Website/{{Wikipedia}} by seventeen years) and joke about how silly it sounds when grown people act it out in live-action. But nowadays, anyone confused by ContinuityLockout can look up the relevant details online, and the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has not only enjoyed considerable success using such a model of storytelling, but it's also made it ''normal'' to see gags referencing other parts of an established continuity or other versions thereof and either not be confused or be able to find out what it means fairly quickly. In other words, ''Buckaroo Banzai'' more or less shows how weird the average modern franchise movie would seem if it were viewed as a standalone work, without a franchise to support it.
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* QuirkyWork: When Creator/JeffGoldblum as a cowboy named New Jersey is only the tip of the weirdness iceberg, you're definitely a Quirky Work.
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* WidgetSeries: When Creator/JeffGoldblum as a cowboy named New Jersey is only the tip of the weirdness iceberg, you're definitely a W(H)AT.
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* SoBadItsGood: Much like ''Film/FlashGordon'', the movie isn't really ''bad'' so much as it is incredibly campy and cheesy, and the freewheeling "Why not?" approach taken with the entire production makes it a ton of fun to watch.
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* SoBadItsGood: Much like ''Film/FlashGordon'', ''Film/FlashGordon1980'', the movie isn't really ''bad'' so much as it is incredibly campy and cheesy, and the freewheeling "Why not?" approach taken with the entire production makes it a ton of fun to watch.
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* NotSoCrazyAnymore: One of the biggest jokes of the film is that it is deliberately structured to be entry X in a greater SharedUniverse and there are many in-jokes that would only be comprehensible if you were up to date on the (nonexistent) mythos or willing to explore an (equally nonexistent) ArchivePanic. While back then the joke was a reference to LongRunner pulp series like Doc Savage, by 2022 this is (for good or ill) one of the biggest issues people refer to when they talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and [[FollowTheLeader its competition]].
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** Creator/CarlLumbly playing a lone alien who's arrived on Earth to help a team of heroes defend it against an invading force of rival aliens that have infiltrated Earth under the guise of humans for years? [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague There's no way he'd ever have a role like that again, right?]]
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** The film's composer is named Michael '''Boddicker'''. The film stars Creator/PeterWeller. [[Film/RoboCop1987 Do the math]].
** On a metal level, it's amusing that Christopher Lloyd and John Lithgow co-star in this film. We have [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Hypothetical Doc Brown.]]
** On a metal level, it's amusing that Christopher Lloyd and John Lithgow co-star in this film. We have [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Hypothetical Doc Brown.]]
